A U.S. judge on Friday barred Martin Shkreli from the pharmaceutical industry for life and ordered him to pay $64.6 million after he famously raised the price of Daraprim and fought to block generic competitors.
why do I remember like a couple years ago people on the "left" suddenly being like "no, he's based actually. He upped the drug prices as a symbolic gesture" or some bullshit? Am I making this up/misremembering? I could swear I remember people all of the sudden trying to explain why he's not obviously evil.
I thought it was “he sucks” and was being punished for being honest in a way that could have caused all the other phrama companies to admit they do the same thing and also be in trouble.
His defense should have been “if I’m guilty, then every ceo is guilty and should be punished. “ also they are all the same and should be punished.
From what I remember, there were some lip-service paid by some pharma companies like "we're going to look into and reconsider our pricing schemes" which of course was bullshit (mostly? I think some drug prices did get lowered?).
why do I remember like a couple years ago people on the "left" suddenly being like "no, he's based actually. He upped the drug prices as a symbolic gesture" or some bullshit? Am I making this up/misremembering? I could swear I remember people all of the sudden trying to explain why he's not obviously evil.
I thought it was “he sucks” and was being punished for being honest in a way that could have caused all the other phrama companies to admit they do the same thing and also be in trouble.
His defense should have been “if I’m guilty, then every ceo is guilty and should be punished. “ also they are all the same and should be punished.
From what I remember, there were some lip-service paid by some pharma companies like "we're going to look into and reconsider our pricing schemes" which of course was bullshit (mostly? I think some drug prices did get lowered?).
They went back up.
God, e could have had a whole big change.
Yeah, I assumed as much. Skreli could have been a real wake up call for people, but the outrage really couldn't be sustained I guess.
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